It (the Constitution) is a good canvas, on which some strokes only want retouching.
Constitution Quotes
A reservation of a right to withdraw… is a “conditional” ratification; that it does not make N. York a member of the New Union, and consequently she could not be received on that plan. Compacts must be reciprocal;… this principal would not in such a case be observed. The Constitution requires an adoption “in toto” […]
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill).
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
The Fourteenth Amendment… was adopted with a view to the protection of the colored race, but has been found to be equally important in its application to the rights of all.
The Constitution was built for rough as well as smooth roads. In time of war the nation simply changes gears and takes the harder going under the same power.
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate.
Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories.
What’s the Constitution between friends?
